Contingency Planning Subgroup Under the IRAC Working Group

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 1998
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: March 28, 1975
• Content Type: MF

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28 March 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR: C/MPRRD
SUBJECT: Contingency Planning Subgroup Under the
IRAC Working Group
1. The recent flaps in which we have recently been
involved (the Turkey paper and the Thailand paper) have
pointed to the need for an inter-agency support mechanism
if the IC Staff is to be fully responsive to the DCIos needs
for National Foreign Intelligence contingency planning on a
country or regional basis. I use the term contingency planning
in the sense of potential alterations in our collection posture
which result from changes in base rights or alterations in
U.S. national policy which involve a major change in collection
requirements and intelligence support. Such planning should
include identification of country/regional assets, their targeting,
value, the manpower and capital investment involved, as well
as alternative collection postures. We need a better mechanism
to accomplish such planning and to inject the implications into
the annual National. Foreign Intelligence Program proposal. I
believe the establishment of a Contingency Planning Subgroup
under the IRAC Working Group could provide the needed mechanism.
What I have in mind is an inter-dependent system which would
operate as follows.
a. The NIOs would be given explicit respon-
sibility for monitoring contingency planning at the
Inter-departmental Group levels in the NSC as a part
of the general responsibility to provide interface
with national-level users of intelligence support.
The NIOs would provide continuing review of all plans
submitted to the Contingency Planning Working Group
and would direct specific plans to the IRAC Working
Group if it appears that Intelligence Community col-
lection could or should be significantly affected by
the subject contingency.
b. The Contingency Planning Subgroup under the
IRAC Working Group would be headed by CPAD or the
Deputy for Planning who would provide the management
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and coordination activities required to perform
the contingency planning function. This would
involve the following:
(1) Tasking of USIB committees as
appropriate for the identification of in-
country intelligence assets involved in
any given contingency, their targets, and
alternative collection which may be required
under the contingency involved.
(2) Elicitation from the NIOs the
estimates of the substantive value of the
identified intelligence assets to the
needs of production using the above USIB
inputs.
(3) Identifying the manpower and
capital investment associated with in-
country intelligence assets and the invest-
ment, manpower, and O&M costs associated
with alternatives for dealing with the
specific contingency involved.
2. The mechanism proposed would couple contingency
,planning for the Intelligence Community management to the
contingency planning of the NSC and could. provide systematic,
comprehensive support to the DCI by enabling him to better
represent the interests of the Intelligence Community in
national-level contingency planning.
3. I know that you have shared my concern about con-
tingency planning in the Intelligence Community, and I would
value your thoughts on this approach.
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